As the witch in white wizard robes waved the white frost spinach in her hand, every wizard in Despair Valley felt an inexplicable chill seep through their bodies. Their muscles suddenly stiffened and ached.
The witch seemed utterly unrestrained. The moment she attacked, everyone in Despair Valley fell within the range of her spell.
Standing in Serenity Garden, Locke watched wizard apprentices collapse one after another. Like plants withered by frost, they lay shivering beneath a layer of white rime. Their lips had turned completely pale, and many even had their eyes roll back into their heads.
The five crystallization wizards from Golden Crown Mountain grew wary. This magic had bypassed their Permanent Defense Fields and acted directly on their bodies. Even their teeth were chattering now. They felt cold all over, their muscles ached terribly, and every step felt as though it were tearing their bodies apart.
One crystallization wizard said, "It's Ice Magic!"
"The Shaping School's Ice Magic! That moon-ring wizard has enveloped all of us in it!"
Locke glanced at him and disagreed. "This can't be Shaping School magic. It's Life School magic. Haven't you noticed? Only living beings are affected. Neither the rocks on the ground nor the corridor structures show any sign of freezing."
Locke raised his hand and found that his life spiritual breath was struggling to circulate. Every life possessed a hidden vitality, and that vitality had to flow. Once it stopped, it would lose its power. Yet even the circulation of his vitality, that of a star-ring wizard with twenty-five thousand magic pressure, was visibly slowing.
The five crystallization wizards nodded repeatedly.
"Yes, this isn't Ice Magic. Neither my fire magic ring nor the potion I drank to raise my body temperature had any effect."
"I just drank a Furnace Potion. It's